clowder

[ klou-der ]

noun

1. a group or cluster of cats.

Word History and Origins

Origin of clowder¹

First recorded in 1795–1805; variant of dialectal clodder “clotted mass,” noun use of clodder “to clot, coagulate,” Middle English clothered, clothred (past participle), variant of clotered; compare obsolete clotter “to huddle together”; clutter